Anyone for more Pi?

It's Albert Einstein's birthday today and also Pi day. Both are incredibly important in science, maths, biochemistry, physics, the universe and probably many other areas that I haven't thought about.

I will admit that when I realise it's Pi day I get a bit excited, then a bit glum when I discover it's not pie day. No apple, rhubarb, Mississippi mud, key lime, custard or mincemeat pies.

It's a bit obvious that today should be Pi day as (in the US anyway) it is March 14th as in 3.14 or that number that haunts you right the way through high school.

I always thought that mathematics had no business in everyday life, it should be reserved for geeks, boffins and members of MENSA. So imagine how upset I was when I discovered that Pi features in nearly every aspect of life. Yup, that little equation of π=C/d goes a long way from astrophysics to designing drugs. Not designer drugs, as that is something entirely different, though knowing Pi, it will probably affect even that somehow.

π = 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510 and then some, in fact (some random information alert in which to impress/depress your mates) the last calculation that I know off Pi went to 10 trillion digits as calculated by Shigeru Kondo.

This number is something of a mystery as not only is Pi irrational and transcendental. In English that means that it can't be shown as one number divided by another and it should keep on going with out ending in any repeating numbers.

Now I remember learning that the funny symbol thing was the ratio of circumference to the diameter of a circle but apparently the whole π mystery goes much deeper.

I mean seriously, people have written books, songs and poems about Pi. There are t shirts, sweatshirts, mouse mats (for people that still have mouse mats), posters and car stickers. There are even jokes about Pi that I am never likely to understand at all, purely because I'm not a mathematical genius of course.

I am perfectly sure that if someone could do maths 'chat' like Brian Cox or Kevin Fong can do for other subjects then it would come alive and become way more interesting.

Anyone know of any candidates? Or anyone fancy tackling the subject of 2π or as some people say 'the true circle constant is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its radius, not to its diameter.'

Yup 2π or tau is considered to be more important than good old Pi.

However, I'll have to wait until June 28th for that of course.......